Tompa is a town in Bács-Kiskun county,

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

. The Tompa Block is composed of recomplete

Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first epoch (geology), geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and mea ...

shale and has been an area of

hydrocarbon exploration Hydrocarbon exploration (or oil and gas exploration) is the search by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for hydrocarbon deposits, particularly petroleum and natural gas, in the Earth's crust using petroleum geology. Exploration methods ...

. a well drilled by Toreador has produced natural gas. Design of a Hydraulic fracturing program to stimulate the well was finalized and operations to perform the treatment, were to start in May 2009. Also, Cuadrilla Resources lists Tompa in their prospectus. In Tompa 38,796 acres composed of recomplete

were described to contain multi TCF Basin Centred TGS.

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* in Hungarian Populated places in Bács-Kiskun County Hungary–Serbia border crossings Towns in Hungary {{Bacs-geo-stub